Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Yod
73 Your hands have made me and established me;
give me understanding that I may learn your commands.
74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
because I hope in your word.
75 I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments are right,
and that in faithfulness you afflicted me.
76 Please let your loyal love comfort me,
according to your word[a] to your servant.
77 Let your mercies come to me, that I may live,
for your law is my delight.
78 Let the arrogant be put to shame,
because they have wronged me with lies.[b]
As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
79 Let those who fear you turn to me,
even those who know[c] your testimonies.
80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
so that I may not be ashamed.
10 To whom shall I speak and admonish,
that they may hear?
Look, their ears are closed,[a]
and they are not able to listen attentively.
Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn,
they do not delight in it.
11 But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh,
I struggle to hold it[b] in.
Pour it out on the children[c] in the street,
and on the assemblies[d] of young men at the same time.
For even husband with wife will get trapped,
the old with him who is full of days.
12 And their houses will be turned over to others,
their fields and their wives together.
For I will stretch out my hand
against the inhabitants of the land,” declares[e] Yahweh.
13 “For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them,
everyone[f] makes profit for unlawful gain.
And from the prophet to the priest,
everyone[g] practices deceit.
14 And they have treated the wound of my people lightly,
saying,[h] ‘Peace, peace,’ but there is no peace.
15 Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing?
Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated.
Therefore[i] they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them,
they will stumble,” says Yahweh.
16 Thus says Yahweh: “Stand at the roads and look,
and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is,
and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves.[j]
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’[k]
17 And I raised up watchmen over you:
‘Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.’
But they said, ‘We will not listen attentively.’
18 Therefore[l] hear, O nations, and know, O community,
what will happen to them.[m]
19 Hear, O earth,
look, I am about to bring disaster to this people,
the fruit of their plans,
because they have not listened attentively to my words,
and my teaching, they have rejected it also.
A Major Riot in Ephesus
21 Now when these things were completed, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, it is necessary for me to see Rome also.” 22 So after[a] sending two of those who were assisting him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed some time in Asia.[b]
23 Now there happened at that time no little disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For someone named[c] Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen. 25 These[d] he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, and[e] said, “Men, you know that from this business we get our prosperity,[f] 26 and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia[g] this man Paul has persuaded and[h] turned away a large crowd by[i] saying that the gods made by hands are not gods. 27 So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours will come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing—and she is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, she whom the whole of Asia[j] and the entire world worship!”
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